Restoring Dignity In Public Schools

Author : Maria Hantzopoulos
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774663

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For many students in urban public schools, the routines of standards-based instruction and frequent testing remove the possibilities for sustained inquiry and critical engagement in school and with the larger world. Restoring Dignity in Public Schools demonstrates how urban public schools can create thriving, authentic centers of learning. Drawing from rich narratives of human rights education (HRE) in action, the author shows how school leaders can create an environment in which a culture of dignity, respect, tolerance, and democracy ?ourishes. The book examines the dynamics of HRE in practice, defines its constituent elements, and explains how these components work in tandem to produce schooling that encourages young people to critically interact with the world around them and imagine different alternatives for the future. This timely book provides a viable alternative to the currently favored strategies of increased testing, privatization, and disciplinary control. Book Features: A counternarrative to the mainstream discourses of “failing” public schools in the United States. Policies and practices of human rights education in action, including the experiences of students and teachers. A framework for school leaders to create a climate of dignity for marginalized students. Ethnographic research conducted at Humanities Preparatory Academy, a public high school in New York City. “This book provides what most of us don’t have: hope that a school based on human rights can actually exist in urban education. It will inspire grassroots activists and educators alike to envision something tangible to fight for.” —Sally Lee, executive director, Teachers Unite “The testimonies in this book remind us that schools can, in fact, be transformational communities. This is a work of head and heart, a call to reimagine schools as sites of critique and collaboration, purpose and possibility.” —Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools

Author : Maria Hantzopoulos
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807757420

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For many students in urban public schools, the routines of standards-based instruction and frequent testing remove the possibilities for sustained inquiry and critical engagement in school and with the larger world. Restoring Dignity in Public Schools demonstrates how urban public schools can create thriving, authentic centers of learning. Drawing from rich narratives of human rights education (HRE) in action, the author shows how school leaders can create an environment in which a culture of dignity, respect, tolerance, and democracy flourishes. The book examines the dynamics of HRE in practice, defines its constituent elements, and explains how these components work in tandem to produce schooling that encourages young people to critically interact with the world around them and imagine different alternatives for the future. This timely book provides a viable alternative to the currently favoured strategies of increased testing, privitization, and disciplinary control.

Author : Monisha Bajaj,Daniel Walsh,Lesley Bartlett,Gabriela Martínez
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807781081

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Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth by Monisha Bajaj,Daniel Walsh,Lesley Bartlett,Gabriela Martínez Pdf

This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better serving newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in U.S. schools, with a focus on grades 6–12. The authors present 20 strategies grouped under three categories: (1) classroom and instructional design, (2) school design, and (3) extracurricular, community, and alumni partnerships. Each chapter provides research-based information, classroom examples, tips for implementing each strategy, and additional resources. Readers will find engaging profiles of schools, students, and alumni interspersed throughout the book, offering both varied perspectives and practical advice. Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth will assist today’s educators, school leaders, policymakers, and scholars interested in the holistic success and well-being of immigrant and refugee students. Book Features: Practical strategies for educators and school leaders are rooted in empirical research and classroom narratives from across the United States.Multiple, real-life examples are used to illustrate each strategy.Each chapter concludes with a brief summary and recommended resources.School and student profiles demonstrate what the strategies look like in practice, as well as their benefits for students.Diverse perspectives are presented by researchers, classroom teachers, school leaders, and newcomer students.

Author : Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807779606

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Radical Care by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen Pdf

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public schools, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen outlines the five components of radical care: adopting an antiracist stance, cultivating authentic relationships, believing in students’ and teachers’ capacity for excellence, strategically leveraging power, and embracing a spirit of radical hope. To demonstrate practical strategies, the author shares vignettes from her personal experiences that exemplify each of the components. Calling for today’s school leaders to thoughtfully challenge existing structures that reproduce inequality, Radical Care offers a much-needed framework that will guide leadership practice with a sense of urgency and a spirit of hope. Book Features: Focuses on the school principal as critical catalyst for school transformation.Centers antiracism as essential to leadership practice.Includes practical strategies for navigating the sociopolitical and policy climate.Offers a roadmap for engaging teachers and staff in practicing radical care.

Author : Edmund C. Short
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475852622

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A Coherent Curriculum for Every Student by Edmund C. Short Pdf

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized.

Author : Scott D. Wurdinger,J. Cynthia McDermott,Kiel Harell,Hilton Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475845839

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Empowering our Students for the Future by Scott D. Wurdinger,J. Cynthia McDermott,Kiel Harell,Hilton Smith Pdf

Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful individual work of methods and practices that empower young people to engage in their own agency. By using student centered practices in and out of the classroom, their stories demonstrate multiple ways to successfully achieve these ends. The book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: How to encourage self-directed learning; methods and examples of participatory practices and inquiry methods; strategies designing and supporting Problem Based Learning; models for civic engagement; organizing strategies; and practices related to Critical Race Theory. This collection can provide practitioners with strategies and skills that will encourage and develop self-confidence and self-direction in many arenas working together to create change in a democratic landscape as youth learn to use their power.

Author : T. Elijah Hawkes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475863314

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Woke Is Not Enough by T. Elijah Hawkes Pdf

These are challenging times for leaders who believe schools must teach history honestly, be laboratories of democracy, and honor differences while finding common cause. This book, grounded in two decades of work in diverse school settings, provides guidance to help us remain steadfast in the work. Racial justice: Beyond proclamations, how can school leaders reallocate resources to support substantive anti-racist school reforms? Democratic practice: How can school leaders who have significant authority in a hierarchical system wield their power in support of democracy? Restorative justice: With time in short supply, how can schools truly embrace restorative practice, which calls for slowing down to repair and prevent harm? Student activism: How can school leaders uphold rules while also supporting students who disrupt in the name of justice? Counter-extremism: White supremacist threats are a danger to our communities. How can school leaders carefully confront the extremism of these troubled times? Compelling stories drawn from contemporary school contexts help illuminate each of these questions in fine detail. Each chapter concludes with a list of concrete actions every school leader can take in pursuit of answers. Administrators, teacher leaders, and those who support school reform with justice in mind will find both practical guidance and inspiration.

Author : Maria Hantzopoulos,Monisha Bajaj
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350129740

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Educating for Peace and Human Rights by Maria Hantzopoulos,Monisha Bajaj Pdf

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational structures that seek to dismantle various forms of violence, as well as move towards cultures of peace, justice and human rights. Educating for Peace and Human Rights Education introduces students and educators to the challenges and possibilities of implementing peace and human rights education in diverse global sites. The book untangles the core concepts that define both fields, unpacking their histories and conceptual foundations, and presents models and key research findings to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences. Including an annotated bibliography, the book sets forth a comprehensive research agenda, allowing emerging and seasoned scholars the opportunity to situate their research in conversation with the global fields of peace and human rights education.

Author : Gloria T. Alter,William R. Fernekes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781538161944

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The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education by Gloria T. Alter,William R. Fernekes Pdf

Human rights education (HRE) is a worldwide movement designed to place human rights at the center of K–university educational theory and practice, providing a critical foundation for global citizenship education, social justice and diversity education, and equity-based schooling reforms. Readers will learn how: (1) HRE content supports core values of U.S. education, including those focused on liberty, justice, and social equality for all educators and students; (2) HRE concepts and illustrative learning strategies support inclusive education and promote peace, tolerance, and cross-cultural understanding; and (3) the theoretical foundations of HRE are compatible with recognized teacher preparation standards and program goals. Pre-service educators seeking teaching licenses and practicing classroom educators desiring to expand their focus into human rights education will find this book very helpful, as will professors teaching methods courses and courses dealing with social justice, multicultural education, and diversity in education. The book blends theory and practice to help educators make human rights education a central focus of their daily practice, providing sample HRE units concerning the rights of global migrants, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ+ communities. Readers will not only apply what they learn but also become part of a non-partisan movement supporting human rights across the globe.

Author : Nathern Okilwa,Muhammad Khalifa,Felecia Briscoe
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781785601286

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The School to Prison Pipeline by Nathern Okilwa,Muhammad Khalifa,Felecia Briscoe Pdf

This edited volume focuses on the role that school climate and disciplinary practices have on the educational and social experiences of students of color.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000137988550

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Budget hearing: Department of Health and Human Services; Oversight hearing: The vital responsibilty of serving the nation's aging and disabled communities; National Institutes of Health; Department of Education; Department of Labor; Oversight hearing: Closing the achievement gap in higher education by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Decoteau J. Irby,Charity Anderson,Charles M. Payne,William Ayers,Therese Quinn
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807780817

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Dignity-Affirming Education by Decoteau J. Irby,Charity Anderson,Charles M. Payne,William Ayers,Therese Quinn Pdf

The word “dignity” isn’t typically used in education, yet it’s at the core of strong pedagogy. This book names the concept and shows readers what education looks like when it is centered on students’ dignity. By bringing together a collection of chapters written by authors with wide-ranging expertise, this volume presents a powerful approach to education that reminds people of their somebodiness—the premise that each person inherently possesses the intellectual acumen and creative resources to pursue development on their own terms. This timely book brings dignity into sharper focus, moving the field toward a language that captures what is required for oppressed communities to recognize their potential. It synthesizes research for educators, school leaders, and educational activists to help them make sense of what they are working for and against: dignity and the numerous affronts to it. Dignity-Affirming Education is important reading for anyone who works with students of any age, including nontraditional or adult learners, in formal and informal educational contexts. Contributors: Ramona Alcalá, Varnica Arora, Mica Baum-Tuccillo, Crystal V. Breedlove, Alondra Contreras, Michelle Fine, Samuel Finesurrey, Eric K. Grimes / Brother Shomari, Elisabeth H. Kim, Aidan Lam, P. Zitlali Morales, Daniel Morales-Doyle, Evin Orfila, Jacqueline Robinson, Arnaldo Rodriguez, Christyl Rodriguez, Manali J. Sheth, David Stovall, S2 Alumni Research Collective (Joel Almonte, Nathan Boissier, Samantha Bruno, Noah Campbell, Noel Columna, Ashley Cruz, Jesslin Hiraldo, Mya Laporte, Brandon Mendoza, Naomi Pabon, Sheylany Paulino, Ariana Peñña Ramírez, Lauren Santos, Siarra Savinon, and Alyssa Victoria), Ayako Takamori, and Priscilla Wohlstetter.

Author : Michael Kazin,Rebecca Edwards,Adam Rothman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400839469

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The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History by Michael Kazin,Rebecca Edwards,Adam Rothman Pdf

An essential guide to U.S. politics, from the founding to today With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, this is the only single-volume encyclopedia that provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of U.S. political history and the broader forces that shape American politics--including economics, religion, social movements, race, class, and gender. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, each entry provides crucial context, expert analysis, informed perspectives, and suggestions for further reading. Contributors include Dean Baker, Lewis Gould, Alex Keyssar, James Kloppenberg, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Lisa McGirr, Jack Rakove, Nick Salvatore, Stephen Skowronek, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and many more. Entries cover: Key political periods, from the founding to today Political institutions, major parties, and founding documents The broader forces that shape U.S. politics, from economics, religion, and social movements to race, class, and gender Ideas, philosophies, and movements The political history and influence of geographic regions

Author : Maria Hantzopoulos,Monisha Bajaj
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350129733

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Educating for Peace and Human Rights by Maria Hantzopoulos,Monisha Bajaj Pdf

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational structures that seek to dismantle various forms of violence, as well as move towards cultures of peace, justice and human rights. Educating for Peace and Human Rights Education introduces students and educators to the challenges and possibilities of implementing peace and human rights education in diverse global sites. The book untangles the core concepts that define both fields, unpacking their histories and conceptual foundations, and presents models and key research findings to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences. Including an annotated bibliography, the book sets forth a comprehensive research agenda, allowing emerging and seasoned scholars the opportunity to situate their research in conversation with the global fields of peace and human rights education.

Author : William E. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157889929X

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Restoring Honor to Public Schools by William E. Smith Pdf